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The Evil Genius

CHAPTER IX
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Somebody Attends to the Door.
With slow steps Linley crossed the lawn; his mind gloomily absorbed in thoughts which had never before troubled his easy nature--thoughts heavily laden with a burden of self-reproach.
Arrived at the limits of the lawn, two paths opened before him.

One led into a quaintly pretty inclosure, cultivated on the plan of the old gardens at Versailles, and called the French Garden.

The other path led to a grassy walk, winding its way capriciously through a thick shrubbery.

Careless in what direction he turned his steps, Linley entered the shrubbery, because it happened to be nearest to him.
Except at certain points, where the moonlight found its way through open spaces in the verdure, the grassy path which he was now following wound onward in shadow.


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